Democracy and Authenticity - Toward a Theory of Public Justification

Informationen zum Autor Howard Schweber is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In 2006, he received the William T. Kiekhoffer award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is the author of The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and The Creation of American Common Law, 1850–1880: Technology, Politics, and the Construction of Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Klappentext Professor Howard Schweber analyzes whether there are limits to what counts as an appropriate justification for coercive government actions. Zusammenfassung Schweber argues that justifications based on particular religious doctrines inaccessible to nonadherents cannot be a proper basis for government actions that affect everyone. He develops a model of justification intended to guide citizens in a liberal democracy through the work of creating policies that satisfy their responsibilities to one another. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: consensus liberalism and the challenge of pluralism; Part I. The Case for Constraint: 1. Three cases for constraint: Audi, Rawls, and Larmore; 2. Subjective standards and the problem of deliberative perfectionism; 3. Liberalism and the problem of authenticity; 4. Further reflections on authenticity; 5. The scope of constraint; Part II. Responding to the Case for Inclusion: 6. Arguments from consequences: pluralism and the role of culture; 7. The arguments from consequences: agnostic democracy and republican virtue; 8. Fairness as equality; 9. Fairness as recognition; 10. The argument from epistemology: claims of equivalence; 11. Empiricism and public justification; 12. Toward a theory of public justification.

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• Authors: Howard Schweber, Howard H. Schweber, Howard H. (University of Wisconsin Schweber, Schweber Howard H.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2011
• EAN: 9781107015333
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01533-3
• No. of pages: 446
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory